Sarcasm Essays

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen. Satire is a literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and wit to the end that human institutions or humanity may be improved. The true satirist is conscious of the frailty of institutions of man’s devising and […]

My essay is about Alan Bleasdale’s two plays “Jobs For The Boys” and “Yossers Story” from the series “Boys From The Black Stuff”. Bleasdale wrote these plays to show how serious unemployment really is. He tries to show that it is stupid that someone is employed to find out if there is anyone employed illegally. […]

The poem ‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen tells of one mans turmoil due to the effects of war. Owen describes a man whose life is ruined because now he is ‘legless’ due to the fact that his limbs were blown up in the battlefield. This is evident in the third line of the poem where it […]

‘An inspector calls’ is a morality play written by the author JB Priestly set in 1912, but was actually written in 1944. The whole idea behind the play was to convey a moral message to the audience. The play was set in 1912, as society was extremely different at the time Priestly wrote the play. […]

Richard Eberhart, born in 1904, was a soldier, a naval officer precisely, in world war II,the experience which gave birth to his poem “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment published in 1945. Henry Reed was born in 1914. His own experience in the The Royal Army Ordnance Corps gave birth to his poem ‘Naming of Parts’. […]

D.H. Lawrence’s essay, “On the Scarlet Letter”, voices his opinions on Hester. Due to Hester’s adultery, he thinks of her as a “demon” and “the great nemesis of women”. D.H. Lawrence takes his views and effectively communicates them with the use of literary devices; his views are supplemented by a sarcastic tone, a choppy syntax […]

‘The Importance of being Earnest’ is a comical play. The characters and the plot are both comical, but the play may be best described as a social comedy, a comedy of manors. Wilde uses many comic devices to make the play funny but I think the main focus is on using irony in this particular […]

‘Night of the Scorpion’ is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel, in which the poet uses Indian English, to bring out Indian culture and ideology. Ezekiel uses a style known as ‘Poetry of Situation’ to depict the typical maternal reaction of selflessness on being bitten by the Scorpion – ‘Thank God the scorpion picked on me […]

Q1 – “A Barred Owl” vs. “The History Teacher” Essay – Draft 2 “A Barred Owl” by Richard Wilbur and “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins both have adults lying to children. A childish tone is given off in “A Barred Owl” that helps the reader relate to the child’s fear while an ironic and […]

The Nigerian poet Wole Soyinka uses the poem the telephone conversation to express the apathy one, particularly the black has, against Apartheid. Through an ironical dialogue over the telephone the poet criticizes the strong feeling of hatred that has arisen due to racial discrimination. The poem starts on a mild note where the poet negotiates […]